Without some form of morality, it is difficult to tell a good story. In any meaningful story, and therefore in any meaningful life, a character must have a sense of right and wrong, and that sense of right and wrong has to be universal. If his sense of right and wrong isn’t universal, he is a psychopath, and if he has no morality, his story is not going to be meaningful.
Many people are moral for religious reasons, stating their [...]
It’s been several years since I’ve released a new book. And add to that this is my first hardback. I told an audience on the book tour that, perhaps, this is the first book I’ve ever actually been proud of. Not sure if that is because I’ve grown up or if the other books just seemed flat to me. Regardless, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years hits stores today.
I waited until today to thank you, the people who [...]
The Million Miles in a Thousand Years book tour is leaving the Pacific Northwest and heading to California, Arizona and Colorado. The book releases in one week, though you can already get it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and even some stores, but the live event has been running for a week.
The crowds have been great so far, and we are certainly having a good time on the road. When you come to an event, you’ll be [...]
As I’ve wrapped up the book and started the book tour, I’ve definitely been wearing two hats. Publicly it’s been getting the word out about the new book, but behind the scenes the locomotive that is The Mentoring Project has moved forward at a dramatic pace. In the past six months or so, we’ve hired a new President and a new communications director, and are currently planning our dream team to take our vision forward. As I speak on the [...]
We are in our van on the way to Spokane. We were able to score a big passenger van with wifi so I get to update this blog at 70 mph. Tonight will be the 4th of 65 events, and so far the events are going well. I got slammed with a head cold but for some reason each night it doesn’t affect my talk. We are in that early part of the tour where the crew is getting [...]
We had amazing success with our hidden manuscript campaign. I’ve received compliments on it, but the truth is I stole it from Derek Webb. Thanks Derek!
The longest anybody had to wait was about ten minutes, and the shortest was when I said I was in front of the White House and somebody was there in about thirty seconds (they had been tipped off by an earlier hint.) All in all, you guys did great, and it won’t be the last [...]
All we do around here is daydream about other places to live.
If you want to come visit this armpit, you can find more info here.
I’d spent a year or so writing my first book, and it was coming out early in 2000. I had the first copies sent to Texas where I’d be spending Christmas. My family knew I had a book coming out, but they didn’t think they’d see it for months. I received a box Federal Express and hid it in the trunk of the car I was using. I was dying to take a look at it, but there were [...]
Earlier this year I had the privilege of spending a couple days in Washington DC with Jeremy Cowart. Jeremy is a premier photographer whose photos are seen all over the world. We had lunch at a little Thai place near Georgetown and I asked him how things were going. He was about to accept a job traveling with Brittany Spears as the official photographer for her tour, so things were good. But he also wanted something more, he wanted [...]
You can now embed the first thirty pages of A Million Mils on your website. Just visit this site, and embed the code like you would a YouTube video. You can also put it on your Facebook page. Thanks for all the help spreading the word. The book will be shipping from Amazon and Barnes within a very few days, and will be at your local bookstore within a couple weeks. Here we go!
